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ARUGULA GUY
A prominent New York Times reader - “I’ve found enormous sustenance from Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd” - stands up for Barack Obama:
Rocker Bruce Springsteen, renowned for his gritty parables of American working class life, today defended Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama, as he fights charges of elitism.
Mr Springsteen earned $55 million in 2006.
UPDATE. Hillary hilarity.
UPDATE II. AIIIEEE!!!
Well, at least, Springsteen showed up for the Big O’s Black & White Night ...
Re #3, C.L., Obama is probably hoping that Hamas won’t explode in his face….. ;-P
Of course, after the Democrat debate in Pennsylvania, he might be hoping it will.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 04 17 at 12:07 AM • permalinkS-S-S-Suffering succotash! Springsteen’s s-s-s-sustenance sucks.
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 04 17 at 12:18 AM • permalinkI’m waiting for the crucial Ben Affleck endorsement.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 17 at 12:48 AM • permalink“I’ve found enormous sustenance from Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd”
I’ll bet he found even more “enormous sustenance” in $55 million. Given a choice of enormously sustaining things I’ll take $55 million over Krugman and Dowd any day.
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 04 17 at 12:49 AM • permalink#12 - America is the land of oportunity. Even for bitter and twisted Harvard types.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 04 17 at 01:03 AM • permalinkMr Springsteen earned $55 million in 2006.
One advantage of being elitist. We’ve got the money.
Posted by AlexanderH on 2008 04 17 at 01:09 AM • permalinkI wondered what this famously expensive and elitist ‘argula’ is.
Bloody ‘eck - it’s just rocket. What you get in a $4 salad mix from Woolworth. And not especially tasty either; at least, not compared with iceberg lettuce.
Posted by walterplinge on 2008 04 17 at 01:24 AM • permalinkOT but this made me laugh - on Tim Dunlop’s blog today:
“Sharia law, of course, frowns on homosexuality…”
Frowns?!
Posted by Pig Head Sucker on 2008 04 17 at 01:46 AM • permalinkEvery time some magazine does a feature on Springsteen, they send a photographer to do Bruce standing up against a grimy brick wall or a rusty tin fence, or whatever. You could just as easily photograph Martha Stewart like that, and it would mean as much.
#15 AlexanderH,
you should try engaging in a conversation here instead of hit & run posting. Sure, some people here will bark loudly but few bite.I say this because sometimes I’m not sure if you are trying hard to troll or if it’s just that you have poor reading comprehension and aren’t very witty.
Or are you acting out in a bid to get someone’s attention? As I recall you long for infidel tiger to be your daddy.
Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2008 04 17 at 02:41 AM • permalinkYeah, but he did it for the COMMON MAN.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2008 04 17 at 02:45 AM • permalink“the ballard of obama”
oh it’s good to be tight
with the working class man,
and live as far from them
as I can.I await my royalties; $55M will be fine, thanks.
Posted by anonymous guest on 2008 04 17 at 02:51 AM • permalink#23 Col, I wouldn’t encourage him too much. It’ll only end in tears.
It always does.Posted by daddy dave on 2008 04 17 at 06:48 AM • permalinkJust dropping in to share this quote from Carlos D, bass player of Interpol.
Paul(Banks, the band’s lead singer) likes political lyrics. But I don’t like them at all. If I see a rock star singing political lyrics, I think about Elvis. All he was trying to do was move my ass.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 04 17 at 07:00 AM • permalinkSwinish, I agree with that.
Music is and should be visceral.Using an emotive medium like music to sneak political slogans into people’s minds is actually kind of sinister. You’d want to be bloody sure that the slogans and propaganda you were pushing in your songs were 100 percent correct.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 04 17 at 07:11 AM • permalinkLike Springsteen, Lyle Finds
Enormous Sustenance from
Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd:Krug-gnome has projected
For six straight robust years
Chaos and depression,
Which on the Left, drew cheers.He was wrong, unless he
Meant Dowd’s pathetic fears:
Dateless every date-night,
Her well-worn Trail of Tears.#16
salad plant sounds better when called eruca. Added value for elitists.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 17 at 07:20 AM • permalinkI’m just glad Acidman’s daughter has kept his blog online after his death. There is a lot of bitterness and clinging in his archives.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2008 04 17 at 08:28 AM • permalinkIts a good thing Bruce keeps it below 3 syllables in his song-writing. Those 4 sylllabub words can be dangerous -and hard to use correctly.
Posted by Son of a Pig and a Monkey on 2008 04 17 at 10:31 AM • permalinkA musician’s endorsement.
Springsteen probably thought ‘arugula’ was a lyric from ‘Inna Gadda Davida…”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 04 17 at 11:08 AM • permalinkI was just thinking about the irony of a Bruce Springsteen thread with an “ARUGULA” header. But read some of his lyrics:
Blinded by the light
Madman drummers bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin’ kinda older,
I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin’, sneezin’ and wheezin,
the calliope crashed to the ground
How appropriate. Word salad.Best thing about Loose Stringbeans these days is hearing a New Jersey born and raised Easterner sing in a fake Midwest accent. “Ah’m uh gonna git up ha-early inna morn’g anda warsh muh ha-yunds ca-lean….” Breaks me up every time I ha-ear, uh, hear it. What’s next, a plaintive ballad about threshin’ that thar wheat with a scythe in one hay-und and uh slice of Noo Yawk pizza in tuh otha’?
Srekwah: no, you’re not the only one. I’ve always thought he was a phony. All the Springsteen fanatics I’ve known were druggies too.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 04 17 at 02:30 PM • permalinkHe gets sustenance from the NYT? Used to be he got it by paying his help sub-minimum wages, docking them for minor infractions and a list of other abuses. All while he was raking in millions of dollars.
I know this for two reasons: first I knew him way back before he got famous and he was a shifty manipulator even then. Second, his serfs sued him for back pay and other damages and the whole ugly story was front page news for days.
There’s a lot of gossip about him around here these days and none of it’s flattering. To think this guy is a political solon says plenty about the people who think he is.
Oh. By the way, Boss, great job on the Gore campaign. You really made a difference.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 04 17 at 02:54 PM • permalinkDid an even better job on Kerry’s jaunt, too, if I can remember such useless information.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2008 04 17 at 03:37 PM • permalinkMS Springstud. (via Daring Fireball)
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2008 04 17 at 05:23 PM • permalinkAlways got the impression that Springsteen grew up is some grimy industrial town with blast furnaces going around the clock. Amazing what illusions PR creates.
A quick Google search shows a middle-class boy with middle-class parents (bus driver and legal secretary) in a middle class town (Freehold) just a few miles from middle-class seaside resorts. It might have been New Jersey but it’s not the blue-collar industrial New Jersey he would have you believe. Springsteen looks to have been a professional musician all his working life.
#10: Ahhh… the crucial Affleck endorsement. I’m sure Obama is on pins and needles waiting for that sage pronouncement that he needs to “enervate his base.”
And the Boss: Batting a perfect .000 in endorsements since ‘00.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2008 04 17 at 10:41 PM • permalink
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